Maksim Melenchenko

evidentiality tense aspect modality narratives complex verbs coordination verbal morphology clitics orthography

Research

Developer of the morphological analyzer, the orthography converter and keyboard layouts for the Shughni alphabet. PhD student at HSE, research assistant at the International Linguistic Convergence Laboratory.

Academic timeline

2019–2023

Education

Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (BA), HSE University, Moscow
2023–2025

Education

Linguistic Theory and Language Description (MA), HSE University, Moscow

Publications

What we do in the shadows of the pear tree: Tense switching in Shughni Pear Stories
Journal Article

Indo-Iranian Languages 2 (1) 2026. 74–99.

The Pluperfect in Shughni and other Pamir languages
Journal Article

Indo-Iranian Languages 1 (1) 2025. 50–88.

Standardization of the Shughni alphabet: Theory and practice
Book Chapter

Shughni Etudes. Collection of Papers on the Shughni Language 2025. 18–38.

Syntactic properties of the defective verb žīwǰ ‘love’ in Shughni
Journal Article

Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 7 (1) 2024. 64–88.

Evidential Perfect in Shughni
Journal Article

Voprosy Jazykoznanija (6) 2023. 120–137.

Digital Resources for the Shughni Language
Conference Paper

Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Marseille: European Language Resources Association. 2022. 61–64.